Eric Mendelsohn
Lecturer at Rutgers University
Upper Freehold Township, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolEric Mendelsohn is a Lecturer and computational physicist with eight years of experience melding hands-on teaching for large undergraduate cohorts with high-performance scientific software development. He led the creation of an N-body simulator and ran over a million simulations via the petaFLOPS-scale MilkyWay@home platform to measure properties of a disrupted dwarf galaxy and probe the Milky Way’s dark matter distribution. To make rigorous uncertainty estimates tractable, he devised a mathematical framework expressing parameter derivatives via the Hessian and implemented forward automatic differentiation in an N-body code—novel work that handled non-continuous operations like rejection sampling and histogramming. At Rutgers he builds laboratory curricula that emphasize error propagation and real-world datasets, teaching roughly 150 students per semester across introductory and intermediate physics labs. His background spans particle-physics data analysis using ROOT and advanced optimization, combining deep theoretical insight with practical code and pedagogy.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at Rutgers University–New BrunswickDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (2)
golang9
nodejs4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
ericmendelsohn/hello-world
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
testingtest-repository
Milkyway-at-home/milkywayathome_client
Mar 2018 - Aug 2022
milkway@home client
Contributions:4 releases, 248 commits, 83 PRs in 4 years 6 months
golang
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